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About NAI
MISSION STATEMENT ::..
Empowerment of nurses through knowlege of the law. To serve as international resource for nursing law, ethics and conflict management issues, education and consultation. NAI OVERVIEW ::.. NAI pursues it goals through a combination of professional publications, online resources, and continuing education materials including CD-ROM programs that can be purchased individually or licensed for use by healthcare facilities and their staff. They offer publications of laws and regulations that affect nursing practice on a state by state basis. Areas of consultation, conferences and other services are described in more detail below. ETHICS: NAI is dedicated to supporting nurses facing ethical dilemmas and increasing their ability to recognize and avert ethical issues from becoming legal and disciplinary problems. NAI can assist in the establishment and operation of nursing peer review programs to address legal and ethical concerns within the professional peer group, as a tool for quality improvement and avoidance of outside licensure and legal actions. LAW: Knowledge of the law empowers nurses in everyday life and death situations to act for the protection of their patients while meeting legal obligations and standards of care. NAI offers in-service programs ranging from full-day formal presentations to one or two hour question, answer, and discussion sessions. The principals make presentations to large groups of nurses and other healthcare providers at conferences around the country. Tonia Aiken is the editor of the acclaimed nursing law and ethics textbook, Legal, Ethical & Political Issues in Nursing” published by F.A. Davis, now in its second edition. Diane and Tonia have both contributed chapters on legal and ethical issues to various nursing specialty textbooks and articles for journals. They offer an online forum for answering general questions of nursing law and ethics. CONFLICT MANAGEMENT: NAI also offers health care providers introductory and advanced workshops to teach facilitative techniques that can be easily and immediately implemented to enhance collegiality and productivity in the organization. LEGAL NURSE CONSULTING: The Institute teaches experienced registered nurses in collaboration with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing. to become legal nurse consultants, working at the interface of law and nursing in many exciting settings. Their LNC students are employed by law firms, government agencies , risk management, hospitals, and other businesses needing the skills of a legal nurse consultant. Many of the students have independent practices and serve as consultants to the legal industry. LIST OF SERVICES ú Consulting Services with an emphasis on patient safety
ú Present legal and ethical seminars on numerous topics:
o Nursing Practice
o Nursing Standards of Care and the Law
o The Law – Basic Legal Concepts and Process
o Ethics in Nursing
o Intentional and Quasi-intentional Torts
o Common Areas of Negligence and Liability
o Documentation and the Nurse
o Electronic Documentation
o Risk Management
o Informed Consent
o Facility Liability and Employment Issues
o Liability and the Nurse Manager
o The Nurse and the Medical Malpractice Lawsuit
o The Expert Witness
o Professional Liability Insurance
o The Nurse and the Contract
o Conflict Management and the Nurse
o Liability in Professional Practice
o Communication Techniques
o Facilitation/Mediation Techniques
ú Present and train others on conflict management and alternative dispute resolution
ú Facilitate meetings
ú Train healthcare providers and others on the following facilitative processes:
o Participatory Group Facilitation
o Guided Dialogue Method
o Consensus Workshop Method
o Action Planning Process
o Strategic Planning Process
o Systems Change – Dynamics of Human Transformation
ú External Nursing Peer review
ú Optimize the effectiveness of those who facilitate, lead, and manage the processes of sustainable organizational transformation
ú Author articles on legal and ethical issues and conflict management for facility newsletters
ú Present in-service programs on specific topics of interest for your area of nursing or healthcare practice
ú Train nurses as Legal Nurse Consultants which includes:
o Identifying standards of care, causation, and damage issues
o Conducting client interviews
o Conducting research and summarizing medical literature
o Identifying and applying multidisciplinary standards of care and regulatory requirements
o Preparing chronologies of medical events and comparing and correlating them to the allegations
o Educating attorneys, risk managers, and administrators regarding medical/nursing facts and issues relevant to lawsuits and/or potential cases
o Identifying and determining damages and related costs of services, including collaborating with economists in preparing a cost analysis for damages
o Assisting with depositions and trials, including developing and preparing exhibits
o Organizing medical records and other medically related litigation materials
o Locating and procuring demonstrative evidence
o Collaborating with attorneys in preparing or analyzing complaints, answers, and motions for summary judgment, interrogatories, deposition and trial outlines, queries for direct and cross examination, document production requests, trial briefs, demand letters, and status reports
o Identifying, retaining, and working with expert witnesses
o Acting as a liaison among attorneys, physicians, clients, and experts and
o Providing initial case screenings for merit
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